Correspondence (outgoing)

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Angela Morrison

valued friend: -

Friend I can not but call you for your letter dated Mch 3rd gives every indication of a deep interest not only in the University but in the result of the trial which has burdened me far beyond my ability to express. That you in conjunction with the honored friends whom you call your "judicial cousins," have taken such a deep interest in the suit and its result, touched my heart deeply. And now let me frankly confess to you that I am humbled with gratitude to God that He

brought Heaven's best influence to unite with earth to bring about this result, and I was used as a poor instrument. I know full well all my frailties and my inefficiencies and my weaknesses, and the greatest weakness I had to contend with was the desolation that almost ate out my hearts energies. I resorted to prayer for strength and courage to do the Will of God, for I felt if it was His will that I in my lonely widowhood should defend to the best of my ability

the name and fame of the blessed man who had begun an institution on the very highest plane of Christian Religion, the simple religion of Jesus Christ, "to do unto others as he would have others do unto him." I acknowledge to the weakness that I had the ambition to leave this name in all its purity of purpose, its good intentions, its largeness of heart, its belief in the equality of man, its love for his fellow men, its belief that we are all the children of the same God - as a heritage withouth blemish, without a false note to

this theory that we are which was his - to the Children of the land who are congregated within the walls of these buildings which he erected, and that all could look upon the name of Leland Stanford as an ideal worthy to be imitated. God has spared me and permits me now to look into the faces of these students, feeling that there is nothing to cover up, nothing to conceal. His life was an open book and they can all read it, and by following it, be blessed.

I have never thought that it was any victory to ruin the estate for

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Belle Fielder,

Valued friend-

Your tender Christlike not has touched me deeply. I am so thankful to know that your woman's heart has felt in the atmosphere of Stanford University the Christian element, and I am glad to have you confess it to me, for this, above all things, I am praying for, that the men and women of Stanford University may go out and carry in their life work the developed God germ, for we all have it. It is born with each one of us. Some unfortunately have never had it developed and I have feared at Stanford University the influence was not to develop the God